This is Kaywin Feldman. She just gave highly misleading testimony in the U.S. District Court, demanding a climate activist be sentences to the maximal jail time possible. She reports directly to a Private Equity CEO whose company emits 277,000,000 metric tons of carbon. 🧵 Kaywin is the director of the National Gallery of Art. She went to court to demand as much punishment as possible for Joanna Smith, from Declare Emergency.

In her capacity as a Declare Emergency member, Joanna smudged washable finger-paint on the glass encasing a statue. (2/9)

BREAKING: today we share our plan with the world. We will converge on the Congressional Baseball Game. And we will blockade it. We will shut it down. We call on every good person to join us. 🧵 It is obscene that politicians play games as our planet turns to ash. 8,000,000 human beings die yearly of pollution. Our "leaders" hit balls and laugh. On June 12 we will blockade the Congressional Baseball Game. Come to DC. Join us. Signup here: climatedefiance.org/baseballblocka…

BREAKING: We just shut down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is a murderer. She incinerates us to enrich her cronies. As Chevron's top lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped in and stopped the ceremony. Respect us or expect us. 🧵 Murkowski brands herself as a moderate but in truth she is an ecocidal pyromaniac. She fought tooth and nail to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to big oil.
Is nothing sacred? Is nothing sacred? (2/5)

This is monumental. The most important human rights court in Europe decided this week that Switzerland is violating its citizens human rights by failing to address climate change at the speed science demands. This ruling could have major *international* ramifications (1/11) 🧵 This is a landmark, bombshell decision. It could set a major precedent and pave the way for other rulings like this (2/11).

Big update. Big, big update. The administration just approved the Sea Port Oil Terminal. This will have four times the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline. This is hideous. This is a crime against humanity. This cannot stand. This will not stand. (1/13) 🧵 This project was just approved by the Department of Transportation, which is "led" by Polluter Pete Buttigieg. Slimy and slick, Petro Pete will sell out anyone, up to and including his own children, to please his McKinsey bros and multi-millionaire donors. (2/13)

Just look up. We gaze into the heavens today and yet refuse to acknowledge - to fully internalize - that our own planet is on the precipice of collapse. The tipping point is near. The feedback loops are imminent. There will be no return. No second chance. (1/16) 🧵 Just Look Up. Do not blink. Do not avert your eyes. Right overhead, we spew 96,000,000 tons of carbon per day into the skies. We may end civilization in our lifetimes. We do so for soulless McMansions and $3 Walmart crop-tops. (2/16)

No one is talking about it but Israel is eviscerating the natural ecosystems in Gaza. This could make the land uninhabitable not just for years but for generations. Up to 48% of tree cover and farmland has been torched. This is a war crime. This is ecocide. Nothing less. (1/13)🧵 Israel is burning and bulldozing tree crops at historic rates. These trees would take years to grow back - and that's without factoring in the time it would take to detoxify the soil. (2/13)

BREAKING: we just SHUT DOWN the "Sustainability" Summit honoring Bank of America. They've given $279,000,000,000 to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Accord was signed. They bruised and bloodied us but we held firm. There was no choice.🧵 The event was hosted by @IFRSFoundation. The panelists didn't say 'fossil fuels' once. Their ‘SuStAiNaBiLiTy CoNfErEnCe’ staff had us shoved to the ground & assaulted. They put their hands around our necks and left one of us bleeding. Which side do you think the IFRS is on? (2/5)

UPDATE: We just shut down Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. We asked this top-5 fossil fuel financier a life-or-death question. He twiddled his thumbs. So we chased him off stage, then downstairs into the back office. He cowered & called the cops. Classic move, oil boy.🧵 Since the Paris Accords went into effect, Bank of America has provided a shocking $279,000,000,000 to the fossil fuel industry. This is unconscionable. This is unbearable. This is a crime against humanity. (2/13)

This is monumental. This is utterly, utterly, monumental. On this day, January 26, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden took a big step towards banning all new gas exports. This is the most significant move any President has ever made on stopping fossil fuels. (1/13) 🧵 When you do this work, you do not often see good news. Every day stories break about wildfires and floods and tipping points and progressively more dire warnings from scientists. This is unambiguously, majorly good news. Relish it. Savor it. You'll need this to keep going. (2/13)

Pop open the champagne. Pop open the goddam champagne. News just broke today that the President is taking big steps towards banning all new gas exports. This is monumental. This is unprecedented. Here’s what this means 🧵 (1/13) This victory did not come from Brookings. It did not come from Davos.

It came from the bold climate leaders who put their bodies on the line. Even when it was hard. Even when it was uncomfortable. Even when the Experienced Beltway Insiders urged caution and moderation (2/13)

This is huge. This is absolutely monumental. We just shut down an event honoring Exxon CEO Darren Woods. The whole room fled. We showed up & prevented this monster from uttering a word. We will resist him with all we've got. There is no choice. Woods makes $20 million/year while increasing the production of oil & gas globally. His poisonous presence just tainted COP28, where he stupidly declared that he wants to reduce the emissions of Exxon's *operations* -- as though it isn't his PRODUCT itself that's killing us.

It is not easy to talk about this.

This weekend - for the first time ever - the world temporarily breached 2° of warming.

This is a five-alarm fire for humanity. (1/7) 🧵 First, the 2° warming we saw this weekend is not a long-term average. It represents solely one day. Still, this is the first time this threshold has been crossed. To breach this over the long-term would induce vast, catastrophic harms. This would likely be irreversible (2/7)

This should be in the headlines of every major newspaper.

The President is on the cusp of approving a fracked gas project with a climate impact 20 times that of Willow.

This would be a crime against the earth. This cannot stand. This will not stand. (1/9)🧵 The project is called Calcasieu Pass 2 - CP2 for short.

It would be built off of Louisiana, a state already suffering profoundly from oil spills, air pollution, and ecosystem degradation.

There's a reason vast swaths of the state are called "Cancer Ally" (2/9)

Huge update. Huge, huge update.

15 days ago we confronted Deputy Interior Secretary Tommy Beaudreau. We called him a climate criminal in front of his peers. We chased him down multiple blocks, exposing his choice to approve Willow.

Today he resigned. Direct action works.🧵(1/7) Tommy Beaudreau wasn't just "complicit" in Willow. He is the one who personally put his name on it. He also purportedly lobbied for it.

So we shut him down five times in a single day - including on a major panel as he addressed 100s of VIPs. (2/7)

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Fuck Mitt Romney. Literally fuck him. He is not a moderate. He is a MONSTER. His grandkids will curse him. His legacy will be dirt. He acknowledges that the world is overheating and proceeds to TORCH IT more. He has pushed us to the precipice. He has blood on his hands.🧵 As Joe Manchin held up climate legislation for over a year, Romney sat on the sidelines. He could have stepped in and provided the 50th vote at any point. As the world watched the Senate with baited breath, Romney sat silent, complicit, withholding his vote. (2/4)

News: we crashed the birthday BBQ of Rep Steny Hoyer.

Sold out and corrupted, he took $500K+ in fossil fuel blood money. He said Keystone “has merit.” And he defended fossil fuel subsidies.

So we shut down his “Bull Roast.” And we did not apologize.

Respect us or expect us. 🧵 Steny Hoyer's response to us was ridiculous. He defended fossil fuel subsidies on the grounds we can't make the transition overnight.

Just because you can't make the transition overnight doesn't mean you should SHOVEL MORE TAXPAYER MONEY into the industry destroying us (2/7)

Time to name names again!

This is Mike Stratton.

He followed our friend Matt, who traveled to Nantucket Island to call for an end to fossil fuels.

Then Mike made this... odd threat of physical violence:

"I'm gonna touch you."

🧵(1/4) It gets better: Mike told Matt "I've been a climate activist for longer than you've been alive."

Mike is a fracked gas lobbyist and a major donor to Kyrsten Sinema. 🤡

(2/4)

BREAKING: we just shut down YET ANOTHER speech by US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, whose bank recently insured a $400,000,000 gas plan.

Last time we confronted her she had us arrested & jailed.

But we were not deterred. We came back. We always will. Respect us or expect us. The Secretary of Commerce is an officer of the Export Import Bank. This bank just approved a massive plan to allow the gas conglomerate Trafigura to scale up its fossil fuel operations.

Trafigura just posted $5,500,000,000 in profits in the last six months. Is that not enough?

Statement from Climate Defiance founder Michael Greenberg, who was recently locked up by DHS under false charges:

"This is not an easy thing to write about but I just got out of jail. I was trapped in a 35 square foot cage. I slept on a bare metal shelf." (1/15) 🧵 "Denied a sleeping pad, I resorted to using my Brooks Adrenaline running shoes as a mattress. My shirt was my pillow. I was desperate for sleep and also unable to achieve it. I understood for the first time why 'sleep deprivation' counts as a torture technique."

(2/15)

BREAKING: We just swarmed the field at the Congressional Women's Softball Game. As rooftop snipers aimed their guns at us and Members of Congress begged us to evacuate, we held our ground.

This is an emergency. We act like it. 🧵 The Congressional Women’s Softball Game is an annual competition between politicians and journalists.

Unreal.

The media is **literally** “playing softball” with the very people they are supposed to hold to account. (2/16)